
Birthday:
10-03-1972
Deathday:
10-30-2017 (45 years)
Birthplace:
Seoul, South Korea
Biography
Kim Joo-hyuk (3 October 1972 – 30 October 2017) was a South Korean actor. He was known for his leading roles in the films My Wife Got Married (2008), The Servant (2010), and Yourself and Yours (2016), his supporting roles in Confidential Assignment (2017) and Believer (2018), as well as the television series Lovers in Prague (2005), God of War (2012), Hur Jun, The Original Story (2013) and Argon (2017). He was also an original regular cast member on the third season of the KBS2's reality-variety show 2 Days & 1 Night.
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Mr. Handy
Act like Hong Du-shik
event2004 star_border 6.1
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When a handsome small-town know-it-all meets a high-strung, big-city dentist, they're bound to grind each other’s gears, until sparks start to fly.
Love Me Not
Act like Julian
event2006 star_border 6.5
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Julian has lived off the money he lures from his rich female customers. But now he faces usurious debts from a hasty expansion of his business, and he will be killed unless he clears the debt in one month. The only way to save himself is to pretend to be the long-lost brother of an heiress and kill her to get her huge fortune. Min, the blind heiress, cold-hearted like Julian, slowly opens herself to him, and he, too, falls for her. But Julian has to pay his creditor and what makes it worse for him is that the illness that took Min’s eyesight relapsed, threatening her life.
Say Yes
Act like Jeong-hyun
event2001 star_border 5.2
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Young married couple Yoon-hee and Jung-hyun go on a road trip, and along the way they pick up a lone drifter, M. M turns out to be a violent and sadistic psychopath who terrorises the couple at every turn. After capturing Jung-hyun, Em gives him a choice: submit to torture or allow Em to kill Yoon-hee.
Couples
Act like Yoo-suk
event2011 star_border 6.9
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Yoo-Suk looks for a girlfriend who disappeared. Ae-Yeon has a fake diamond which her ex-boyfriend gave to her. Ae-Yeon was dumped by her ex boyfriend. Byung-Chan does not believe in love. Bok-Nam is in love with a friend of a friend.
In Love and the War
Act like Kim Jeong-woong
event2011 star_border 7
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In June 1950, soon after the start of the Korean War, a troop of North Korean soldiers enter a small South Korean village. Captain Jeong-woong proclaims that they came to liberate the villagers but their true agenda is to ferret out the reactionaries. The villagers and Seol-hee, who is separated from her fiance on her wedding day, offer them heartfelt hospitality and cooperation to avoid falling out of the army's favor. Eventually friendships starts to build up between the soldiers and the villagers.
Blue Swallow
Act like Han Ji-hyuk
event2005 star_border 6.8
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Park Kyung-won, who aspired to become a pilot since a young age, enrolls at an aviation academy in Japan. There she meets a charming exchange student from Korea who she is destined to be with.
Singles
Act like Su-heon
event2003 star_border 6.5
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Na-nan has known best pals Dong-mi and Jung-joon since childhood, and now the trio shares the ups and downs of their turbulent single lives together. But everything gets turned on end when Dong-mi and Jung-joon end up in bed! Should the longtime friends make it official or call it a mistake? Na-nan has a job offer and a marriage proposal from the charming Soo-heon to consider, and her twenties are fast coming to end.
Pitch High
Act like Yoon Do-Hoon
event2011 star_border 5
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A touching drama of a baseball player who has past his prime and comes back to the major league after much struggle.
The Beauty Inside
Act like Woo-jin 109
event2015 star_border 7.6
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Woo-jin, a furniture designer who wakes up in a different body every day, falls for Yi-soo, a woman he meets through his work.
My Wife Got Married
Act like Noh Deok-hoon
event2008 star_border 5.6
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It all started with football. Deok-hoon falls in love with In-ah who shares his love and passion for the sports. They quickly become lovers and he proposes. She refuses at first but they are eventually happily married. Marriage is like a dream until one day In-ah declares her wish to marry another man. She doesn’t want divorce as she loves Deok-hoon all the same, only change is that she loves the new man as much. Leaving Deok-hoon who finds himself unable to leave In-ah in the middle, she goes ahead and marries her new man. And so the bizarre bigamy begins.
Like for Likes
Act like Jung Sung-chan
event2016 star_border 7.3
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A notoriously shrewish TV drama writer and a Korean wave star who fight like cats and dogs every time they meet; a spinster flight attendant landlady and a nosy chef tenant who build a sense of camaraderie; a genius relationship-virgin composer who harbors a secret admiration for a scatterbrained producer. As they crash-land into each other's lives, will there be love?
The Truth Beneath
Act like Kim Jong-chan
event2016 star_border 6.9
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For 15 days, a politician and his wife navigate a scandal after their daughter goes missing on the eve of the national elections.
Yourself and Yours
Act like Kim Young-soo
event2016 star_border 6.2
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While a South Korean man wanders the city in search of the woman he just broke up with, she successively meets and flirts with two men who claim to have met her before.
The Servant
Act like Bang-ja
event2010 star_border 5.8
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A servant falls in love with a girl whom his master also desires. Although the girl loves the servant, she also longs to improve her station in life.
Confidential Assignment
Act like Cha Ki-sung
event2017 star_border 6.8
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When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.
Chang-ok's Letter
Act like Bum-su
event2017 star_border 5
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Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn’t help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.
The Tooth and the Nail
Act like Nam Do-jin
event2017 star_border 7.3
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Seok-jin, a magician at a club, meets a mysterious woman, Ha-yeon, who soon becomes his assistant and fiance. Things take a turn when she is found dead and he must find out what happened.
YMCA Baseball Team
Act like Oh Dae-hyeon
event2002 star_border 6.2
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Hochang accidentally sees missionaries and Jeongrim play baseball at the YMCA hall. He falls in love with Jeongrim, and takes interest in baseball. As a result, he gathers people to form the first YMCA baseball team of Joseon.
Heung-boo: The Revolutionist
Act like Jo Hyuk
event2018 star_border 6.3
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During a time of poverty and despair in the Joseon Dynasty of Korea, a satirical street play that pokes fun at the ruling class while giving a prophecy of ‘a new leader to save the world’ becomes immensely popular among the people. The author of the fable, Heung-boo, subsequently gains fame around the country and is sought after by both the oppressive political power and the rebellion leader who want to use his name and talent for their differing agendas.
When Romance Meets Destiny
Act like Yoo Gwang-sik
event2005 star_border 5.9
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Gwang-sik is very shy around women and he can't even speak a word to them. Gwang-tae is a playboy who enjoys sleeping around with other women. They both meet a woman they each like around the same time, and something changes for both of them.
Believer
Act like Jin Ha-rim
event2018 star_border 7.2
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After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel.
Chang-ok's Letter
Act like Bum-su (4 ep.)
event2017 star_border 6
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Housewife Eun-ha is busy every day: In addition to taking care of her husband who doesn't help out at all and her willful daughter and son, she has to care for her nagging mother-in-law, who is nearly bedridden.
라이벌
(20 ep.)
event2002
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라이벌은 SBS에서 2002년 8월 3일부터 2002년 10월 6일까지 매주 토,일 밤 21시 50분에 방영되었던 특별기획 드라마이다.
Lovers in Prague
Act like Choi Sang-hyun (18 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.5
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Jae Hee, a diplomat in Prague, who is getting over a break-up, meets police detective Sang Hyun and romance blossoms. Jae Hee is the daughter of the Korean President and has to maintain a low profile. Jae Hee's ex, Young Woo and Sang Hyun's ex, Hye Joo make things complicated with secrets surrounding them. With the differences in social status, Jae Hee and Sang Hyun have to fight to see if the love that started in Prague can be overcome from what is trying to keep them apart.
God of War
Act like Kim In-jun/Kim Jun (56 ep.)
event2012 star_border 4.9
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Kim Jun is the son of an escaped palace slave, who gets raised by monks. Years later, after being torn from his home during wartime, Kim Jun must renounce hispacifist ways to partake in a deadly game that could be his ticket to freedom from his masters, Choe Chung-heon's clan. During the Mongol invasions of Korea, Kim Jun rises in the ranks to become the top military official, and eventually rules the Goryeo empire for 60 years in place of its king.
Reply 1988
Act like Deok-sun's future husband (15 ep.)
event2015 star_border 8.8
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Take a nostalgic trip back to the late 1980s through the lives of five families and their five teenage kids living in a small neighbourhood in Seoul.
KAIST
Act like Jung Myung-hwan (67 ep.)
event1999
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A situation drama on students of Korea Advanced Science and Technology. The story of love, agony and endless research of the top brains in the field of science. It also presents a role model of a free, creative youth and their professors dictating what education should be. K.A.I.S.T stands for Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology.
2 Days and 1 Night
Act like Self (279 ep.)
event2007 star_border 7.4
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2 Days & 1 Night is a South Korean reality-variety show with the motto "real wild road variety." Its main concept is to recommend various places of interest that viewers can visit in South Korea.
Running Man
Act like Self (4 ep.)
event2010 star_border 8.3
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A reality and competition show where members are joined by celebs to complete a weekly mission to win the race with Seoul as the beautiful backdrop.
Hur Jun, The Original Story
Act like Hur Jun (135 ep.)
event2013 star_border 3.5
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Drama depicts the dramatic life of historical figure Heo Joon, who wrote the oriental medical textbook "Donguibogam" and became physician for King Seonjo.
Argon
Act like Kim Baek-Jin (8 ep.)
event2017 star_border 7.4
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In a world filled with provocative (and often misleading) news, a passionate team of investigative TV reporters strives to bring truths to light.
Terroir
(20 ep.)
event2008 star_border 4
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Lee Woo Joo meets Kang Tae Min, a man who was taught in the art of tasting wine. Tae Min inherited the wine production from his family and opens Woo Joo's eyes to the world of wine. He has a steady relationship with his girlfriend, Ji Seon, but wavers when he meets the spunky Woo Joo. Joey Park has a deep, dark secret that has haunted him for most of his life. He accidentally set the fire that killed Tae Min's parents. How will Tae Min feel when he learns that a friend caused his parents' death?
SNL Korea
Act like Himself (1 ep.)
event2011 star_border 7.7
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Korea's version of the late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory cast members.
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